Stephen G.B. Hock

Education

Stephen Hock earned his bachelor's degree in Comparative Literature at Haverford College and his master's and doctorate in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. His teaching and research interests include twentieth-century and contemporary American literature, modernism and postmodernism, comparative and world literature, and literary theory. At Virginia Wesleyan, his teaching has included courses on contemporary American literature, world literature, the American novel, American modernism, the postmodern, and literary theory, as well as a seminar on Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. He also regularly teaches in the college's First-Year Experience program. His recent scholarly presentations include papers on Don DeLillo, Colson Whitehead and Charles Yu, Kurt Vonnegut, Michael Robbins, Thomas Pynchon, and Nathaniel Mackey.

"The Black Box of Genre in Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist and Charles Yu's How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe." The Poetics of Genre in the Contemporary Novel, edited by Tim Lanzendörfer, Lexington Books, 2016, pp. 57-71.

"Maybe He'd Have to Just Keep Driving, or Pynchon on the Freeway." Pynchon's California, edited by Scott McClintock and John Miller, University of Iowa Press, 2014, pp. 201-19.

"This Is Too Big for One Old Name: Hitchcock and Smithee in the Signature Centrifuge." Directed by Allen Smithee, edited by Jeremy Braddock and Stephen Hock, University of Minnesota Press, 2001, pp. 175-205.

This represents a sample of recent courses taught by this professor. For the most current course information, consult WebAdvisor "Search for Courses".

Spring

ENG285*01 Contemporary American Lit

ENG378*01 The American Novel

ENG287*01 Modern & Contemporary Lit

Fall

ENG105*01 College Writing

ENG311*01 Theory and Criticism

ENG373*01 American Modernism

FYE101*08 First Year Experience

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